This may be the best thing since the alphabetical Winterreise.

There are a ton. But among the world-famous Dolly Parton and Keanu Reeves come immediately to mind

My decision was made easier by the fact that I’ve never heard a note of a Henze opera

Thank you. Prometeo is criminally underrepresented.

Pelléas et Mélisande
Elektra
Wozzeck
Jenufa
Peter Grimes
Prometeo
Mask of Orpheus
St François d’Assise
Einstein on the Beach
Das Mädchen met den Schwefelhölzern

It just has to be that he thinks a reasonable bowstroke can be sustained for 3 bars of Adagio and change, surely

If you don’t want to say it, I’ll say it for you

Gold dust: Evan Johnson retunes the viola d'amore Apologies first—especially to paying subscribers—for the long silence.

open.substack.com/pub/disgwylf...

Belatedly: there is indeed a bunch of Skempton that I think should fit the bill. Passing Fancy, Campanella 3, Einericon ...

Fairly sure there’s at least one Howard Skempton piano miniature

o maria — evan johnson :: composer

www.evanjohnson.info/o-maria

O Maria (2024-25) for six voices and string quartet First performance -- 1 November 2025 Ekmeles + Mivos Quartet. DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY

Ekmeles and the Mivos Quartet’s (marvelous) premiere of my big piece “O Maria”, from last weekend in New York, can be heard here:

on.soundcloud.com/FSe0xSnMVHvw...

Graindelavoix?

o maria — evan johnson :: composer

www.evanjohnson.info/o-maria

Tonight at the DiMenna Center in Manhattan, 7:30 PM!

Ekmeles + Mivos give the premiere of the ca. half-hour "O Maria" for six voices and four strings, alongside another big premiere from Taylor Brook and vocal music from Ekmeles's repertoire. See you there!

www.ekmeles.com/11-1-25-O-Ma...

Seiobo is high on my all-time list. Thanks for putting it on top.

Maybe me but in any case I’m certainly curious to hear whatever it is!

I mean, I was in the Netherlands when I saw his name, but you know what I mean

whoa, never thought I’d see this guys name outside the Netherlands! Was on a program with him last year

NB Nic also recorded more of the Voices and Piano pieces on a God Records LP about a decade later (including one that’s over twenty minutes long, Roman Opalka)

Not anymore.

Hi! Start with the Ives Ensemble “Madrigale” disc on HatArt or “Works with Guitar” on mode (which includes a lovely piece for soprano and ensemble conducted by one Mr Rosman)

On "dust book," the magnificence of the viola d'amore, and why most of the music I write down tends to be so barely there (and also Marco Fusi's beautiful little text from the booklet of the upcoming album):

www.anothertimbre.com/dustbook.html

Sheet music for Boulez Dialogue de l’ombré double, with Erik Bosgraaf’s CD of his own (authorised!) recorder version on top.

If you can’t plug your friends’ Boulez recordings today of all days, when can you?

Evan Johnson 'dust book', extract played by Marco Fusi (viola d'amore) YouTube video by Anothertimbre

Coming next month, in the new quarterly batch from Another Timbre: Marco Fusi's magisterial recording of my extended viola d'amore solo "dust book", which he premiered in an extremely memorable (to me, anyway) concert at Darmstadt in 2023.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQS...

ooh this is _very_ exciting

I’m glad you feel that way, since I avoid them just because I hate the symbols. Despite my wider infatuation with enharmonic spellings.

My favourite Choice: Erik Bosgraaf Pierre Boulez selbst hat noch zugestimmt, das Erik Bosgraaf das legendäre Stück "Dialogue de l'ombre double" für sein Instrument bearbeiten darf, die Blockflöte. Im Studio Neue Musik stellt er Musik v...

Recorder phenomenon Erik Bosgraaf takes you through five pieces of contemporary music that are important to him, including my little crotale miniature “hyphen”, on the WDR:

www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

I know of course that you are a prolific and acclaimed writer, and rightfully so, but your invocation of the term “weenus” here may be your finest achievement

I have zero opinion about Jethro Tull but you’re wrong about Shostakovich. It’s not always boring, it can be intensely irritating too.